Nothing Special

Gods, men
and women
have all
disappointed me.
What does that
make me,
but an ordinary man?
- mce

The Mortality Worm

At twenty
I was a soldier
terrified to drop
into a hot LZ,
but still certain
I was immortal.

Now at sixty
I hear the sound
of marching feet
coming ever closer.

~ mce

Prayer

Although I am
the most radical
of atheists,
each night
I fall asleep
praying to
whatever gods
may be
to send you
in my direction.

~ mce

The Why

Mozart made
his seven trios
so that God
would have
something
to cheer him up
after a depressing
day.

~ mce

Memory

Everyone and everything
I have ever known
fits into a small pocket
deep in my brain.
It's all there, only sometimes
I just can't reach it.

~ mce

Hallucinations

The cosmos is deaf,
and mute, too.

We are the beings
who strut about
muttering words
we turn into stories.

We then call these tales
our lives and blame
them on the cosmos.

The cosmos can't hear
our pathetic laments
and wouldn't care
if it could.

It is too busy
just being the cosmos.

~ mce